Choosing Website Host

When I began to create my portfolio, I wanted to find the best and most efficient way of hosting my work online. I found services such as SquareSpace too expensive and website such as Wix.com being too basic. I felt the best way to present my work would be to make my site a project in itself using the popular CMS, WordPress. I chose WordPress because of it being a blog-based CMS as well as the flexibility of themes, plugins and its cheap hosting plans available.

From there, I weighed up which would be best hosting site based on price, hosting storage, speed of loading times and quality of customer support. I looked at multiple sites such as IONOS, Bluehost and GoDaddy but I felt their packages didn’t cater to my needs.

I managed to search on the internet for each entity (domain and hosting provider) separately and see if I could cut costs that way. I managed to find a free .com domain name with NameCheap for a year which seemed too good of a deal to pass up.

For the hosting provider, a family member owns a business plan with WPX.net which allows up to 5 websites to be hosted on so I was about to route up my hosting plan and domain.